Word: browne
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Next came industrial espionage. Orey introduces an engaging, skittish misfit named Merrell Williams, a Ph.D. in theater with an intermittent drinking problem and an inability to hold a job until he went to work as a paralegal doing closely held research for Brown & Williamson Tobacco. The object of Williams' work was to determine what B&W execs knew about the effects of tobacco and when they knew it, to help company lawyers fight future damage claims. Out of a sometimes fuddled sense of righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which...
...AUTHOR PLUG:] "I write to entertain people, so...anyone looking for a good juicy read would pick up a Sandra Brown novel...
...PARTY FOR:] Sandra Brown's The Alibi...
CORRECTIONS The boys were given too much credit last week when this column incorrectly stated that all-male investment clubs had beaten the S&P 500 by 0.56% in a recent study; Brown University researchers found that male groups actually trailed the index by that figure. As reported, though, mixed-gender groups beat the S&P handily. Also, because of a computer error, hyphens were incorrectly inserted into two web addresses last week: MetaMarkets.com and StockJungle.com...
Along with isolationism, Buchanan dredges up another dark American political tradition: old-fashioned, immigrant-bashing nativism. While George W. Bush and other Republicans are courting the Hispanic vote, Buchanan warns that too many black- and brown-skinned people are entering the U.S. ("No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic alteration and survived"). He lashes out at Jews as too influential (using the kind of rhetoric that led fellow Catholic conservative William Buckley to conclude, in a 1991 National Review article, that Buchanan was an anti-Semite). But he also argues that Greek-Americans, African-Americans and other "hyphenates...